Speaking with the locals
Speaking with the locals Sinhalese known natively as Sinhala is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million. Sinhalese is also spoken as a second language by other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, totalling about four million. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. The Sinhalese language is written using the Sinhalese script, which is one of the Brahmic…
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